Houdini Main Changelogs

Fixed a bug in gply where it was possible to consume some of the binary data following the end_header line as extra line feeds.

Thu. March 15, 2018

Houdini 16.5.413

In Render View or a viewport Render Region, when Auto Update is off, clearing/changing a crop region, or changing various other render settings will no longer cause a new render to start immediately.

Thu. March 15, 2018

Houdini 16.5.413

Disabled Substance import when generating material for Unity 2018.x This was necessary since Unity had removed built-in Substance support. Once Allegorithmic releases their Unity plugin, we can support it.

Thu. March 15, 2018

Houdini 16.5.412

Fixed a bug in SOP states that could lead to component selections being lost after resuming the state.

Fixed a crash when changing the number of instances on a packed primitive that contains packed primitives.

Wed. March 14, 2018

Houdini 16.5.412

Plugin version 2: Updated instancing page for docs.

Wed. March 14, 2018

Houdini 16.5.412

Allowing non-soho ROPs to appear in Render View menu of ROPs, if they have 'soho_renderview_menu' parameter set to true.

Wed. March 14, 2018

Houdini 16.5.411

Cryptomatte layers no longer have to be written out to separate files. Cryptomatte 'Output Picture' parameter is renamed to 'Different File'. If this parameter is disabled or unspecified, then the layer will be stored in primary output file.

Tue. March 13, 2018

Houdini 16.5.411

Fixed a bug in the Unpack SOP that could cause a crash when there is a type mis-match between transferred and unpacked attributes.

Tue. March 13, 2018

Houdini 16.5.411

Fixes to Pxr Light object scaling. Added a new mesh light object.

Tue. March 13, 2018

Houdini 16.5.411

By default, the Linux version of the plug-in will use an out of process session. This fixes library conflicts introduced in Unreal 4.17, and fixes errors when loading the plug-in on Linux.

Tue. March 13, 2018

Houdini 16.5.411

Fixed a bug in the hou.ui.selectFromList() HOM function that caused the `default_choices` argument to select the incorrect entries if the `column_header` argument was also set to None.

Tue. March 13, 2018

Houdini 16.5.410

Added a getSharedGLContext() function to the RE_Visual.h HDK header which returns the Qt OpenGL context used to share resources with other GL contexts.

Mon. March 12, 2018

Houdini 16.5.410

Fixed a crash with displaying boundaries in the UV view when the UV attribute was invalid.

Mon. March 12, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Fix a bug in the Alembic SOP that caused it to fail to inform the viewport about a change in the geometry.

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

HDK Version bump: GABC library (Alembic)

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Fixed a viewport update bug when adding or removing alembic archives from a single SOP.

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Fixed bug where saving a scene file with a cook error in an unlocked HDA or on an editable subnode in a locked HDA could cause that cook error to masquerade as a save error.

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Added renderer:bake_udimrange property to specify which UDIM tiles to render when baking texture.

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Custom top level menu items defined in XML file with label expressions once again evalaute this expression to show the expected label (though unlike child menu items, this expression can only be evalauted once, when the menu is created).

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.407

Fixed an error in the HDK CMake module when building on Windows or Linux.

Fri. March 9, 2018

Houdini 16.5.406

Fix problem where Intel TBB was not built with c++11 resulting runtime warnings when exceptions were thrown from a task.